PAST in a Sentence

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For PAST, below is one of 420 sentences:
After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
past
 a.  gone by in time and no longer existing
 prep.  later than something; after
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Not a soul did I meet all the way down, though a cab or two went past me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  In his eagerness he had wandered far past the ravines which were known to him, and it was no easy matter to pick out the path which he had taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
8  They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
10  At about half past nine Napoleon, wearing an old bowler hat of Mr. Jones's, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
13  Then, hesitating, dribbled past.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
14  This is the burden that the past laid on me, last little donkey in the long caravanserai crossing the desert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
15  She had come out on to the path that led past the greenhouse.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Back to have in the past, returned to the original.
17  The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
18  The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
19  He nudged the ball past the goalie and into the net.
20  He barged past me to get to the bar.
21  Memories, beautiful very hurt,memories,memories of the past but can not go back.
22  Women have become more assertive in the past decade.
23  It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
24  The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
25  The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
26  This type of games console is starting to look well past its sell-by date.
27  Agriculture was based in the past on the family as a unit.
28  It is useless to muse upon past errors.
29  The share price has continued to fall in value over the past week.
30  He is very reticent about his past.